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3 BizTalk Servers, 2 Datacenters, 1 On-prem

2013-05-21T15:26:27Z

As you’re probably aware, Windows Azure IaaS went general availability recently. There are three BizTalk images in the gallery that you use to create a new BizTalk virtual machine. This was too much for me to resist, I wanted to do something cool and distributed as a proof-of-concept. The result is this blog post, and the accompanying video that shows the demo running . To get to the bottom line, I used 2 BizTalk VMs on Azure, and 1 running “on prem” (in a Hyper-V VM). The roles of the servers are...(read more)

Unit testing code depending on the ASP.NET #WebApi HttpClient

2013-05-20T15:37:21Z

In a previous post I showed how to unit test an ASP.NET WebAPI Controller. But with a REST service there is both a client and a service component. Assuming for a moment the client part is also written in C# we should test that as well. In this case the client application contains the following class to load books from the REST WebAPI controller: 1: public class BooksClient 2: { 3: private readonly HttpClient _httpClient; 4: 5: public BooksClient(HttpClient httpClient) 6: { 7: _httpClient ...(read more)

Azure AD OAuth 2.0 Authorization Grant

2013-05-17T23:08:55Z

Yesterday I talked about a bug which prevented me to complete the authorization grant flow with Azure AD. It turn out the bug is only exposed when using Azure Management Portal for Relying party registration. In this post, I’ll use Graph Explorer to do the registration which works fine. My scenario is to create a […] Blog Post by: zamd...(read more)

Azure AD OAuth 2.0 Client_Credentials Flow

2013-05-16T22:24:18Z

I was playing with the Authorization code grant type recently added to Azure Active directory however there is bug in the preview implementation which prevents exchange an ‘authorization code’ with an access token. I can get the authorization code for graph api by using following url in the browser. https://login.windows.net/69383356-56dd-4e78-a18e-a4ff5450c995/oauth2/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=9f030b74-1ec1-4b6b-8911-f4e6e465ff9d&resource=https://graph.windows.net&api-version...(read more)

Filtering the data in an #AngularJS ngRepeat element

2013-05-13T07:51:00Z

Index: Getting started with AngularJS Creating an AngularJS Controller The AngularJS $scope is not the MVC Model Using repeating elements in AngularJS Filtering the data in an AngularJS ngRepeat element Showing a list of items like in the previous post is nice but if the list is large most users appreciate the possibility to search in it. Turns out that AngularJS has that already build in so it is really simple to do. We are using exactly the same controller as before, all it...(read more)

Unit testing a ASP.NET WebAPI controller

2013-05-12T19:04:31Z

One of he goals of the ASP.NET WebAPI is to make REST style API controllers more testable than more traditional WCF services where in the past. For the most part that is true but there are cases where an ApiController depends on the actual incoming request and its data and things can become a bit more difficult. Testing a simple ApiController that gets data Suppose we have the following ASP.NET WebAPI Controller with two Get methods, the first returns the complete list of books and the second returns...(read more)

Using repeating elements in #AngularJS

2013-05-10T19:30:15Z

Index: Getting started with AngularJS Creating an AngularJS Controller The AngularJS $scope is not the MVC Model Using repeating elements in #AngularJS In the previous posts I showed how to get started with AngularJS and use some of the basic AngularJS directives to data bind. In these examples I uses a really simple single element to bind to. However in lots of business cases you really need to display a list of repeating elements. Fortunately this is really easy to do...(read more)

CRM Online Entity Creation

2013-04-30T14:42:11Z

Recently I started exploring the world of Dynamics and specifically Dynamics CRM. Technically the platform looks fairly simple with a reasonably clean web services API (mostly SOAP) & SAML based message security (remember legacy WS-Trust ) using Live ID as the identity provider. The helper code from the sdk (\sdk\samplecode\cs\helpercode) hides all the complexity but [...] Blog Post by: zamd...(read more)

The #AngularJS $scope is not the MVC Model

2013-04-15T17:39:14Z

Index: Getting started with AngularJS Creating an AngularJS Controller The #AngularJS $scope is not the MVC Model In the previous post I showed how to create and use an MVC Controller in AngularJS to manage the logic of an application. In this post I showed how to use the $scope variable that is passed into the Controller to share data between the Controller and the View. This may lead you to believe that the $scope is the MVC Model used but you would be completely wrong. The...(read more)

Creating an AngularJS Controller

2013-04-10T13:05:00Z

In the previous blog post I showed how to get started with a really minimal AngularJS application. Even though the app could multiply two numbers it could hardly be called useful and as it turns out that is about as much as I could do with it. Model View Controller AngularJS is an MVC framework . So far we have only seen the View part as the HTML used was the view used to render the page to the user. As the name suggest there should be more in the form of a Controller and a Model. The Controller...(read more)

Getting started with #AngularJS

2013-04-05T17:50:35Z

One of the nicer JavaScripts out there to work with must me AngularJS . Now there are quite a few other ones out there and I have used a number of them but AngularJS seems to be the most structured of them. And while it is really powerful it is also really easy to get started with. AngularJS is a client side framework for creating rich web applications using JavaScript and HTML. It isn’t just a library like jQuery or Knockout.js where you create the structure and call into the library as you see...(read more)

FIX: Missing itinerary designer after installing BizTalk 2013

2013-04-04T21:06:06Z

This happened to me. I’m not sure if it will prove to be a common problem, or just something specific to me, but I put this post together to save time for others that may run into it. Scenario: I did a clean install of BizTalk Sever 2013. When I went into Visual Studio 2012, I did not have the option to add ESB Toolkit itinerary designers to a BizTalk project. Explanation: During the BizTalk 2013 beta the itinerary designer was distributed as a VSIX package. However, in the RTM version it is no longer...(read more)

DotNed podcast: Neno Loje on Visual Studio ALM and Team Foundation Service 2012 new features

2013-04-04T17:31:55Z

In this podcast Hassan Fadili speaks with Neno Loje (VS ALM MVP) about some of the new features in Visual Studio ALM & Visual Studio Team Foundation Service 2012. Of course, Neno also talks about some of the success stories and other areas that might be interesting to anyone who has a passion for application life cycle management. Links: Neno TFS blog: www.tfsblog.com The WHY book on TFS: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous...(read more)

WCF Data Services and Web API with OData; choices, choices.

2013-04-03T03:13:00Z

Back in 2010, I wrote a course for Pluralsight on OData which covers the protocol in general and introduces the viewer to the client and server programming model. This year, Microsoft released updates to the ASP.NET Web API which includes support for OData in the controllers. Since this latest release, I’ve received several questions about the differences between these two toolsets for building services that support OData and some guidance on which to use. This is my attempt to answer...(read more)

How I saved the day with Windows Azure Websites

2013-04-03T03:01:00Z

My wife does a lot of work volunteering at our school. No, check that, she does a metric ton of work. The school was planning a silent auction to raise money for various programs. As part of this, the group decided to hold an online auction allowing people to bid on various activities offered by the teachers. The only technology available to the group was a CMS for creating web pages and HTML forms that would send email messages. My wife was planning to respond to email and update the...(read more)

BizTalk 2013 is now RTM

2013-03-25T15:32:26Z

BizTalk Server 2013 (the 8th release!) has released to manufacturing, and is available NOW for download at MSDN for MSDN subscribers. You can read the team blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2013/03/21/biztalk-server-2013-is-now-rtm.aspx A list of enhancements can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2012/11/06/announcing-biztalk-server-2013-beta.aspx Enjoy! Blog Post by: Brian Loesgen...(read more)

DotNed podcast: Mads Kristensen on ASP.NET developer tooling in Visual Studio 2012 and beyond

2013-03-15T11:48:00Z

For a change an English language podcast :-) In this podcast Maurice de Beijer speaks with Mads Kristensen about web tooling in Visual Studio 2012. Besides the standard build in tooling for web developer they also talk about Web Essentials 2012, the plugin Mads develops in his spare time to give web developers even more features and capabilities. Links: Blog: http://madskristensen.net/ Web Essentials 2012: http://vswebessentials.com/ Web Developer Checklist: http://webdevchecklist.com/asp...(read more)

SignalR and camelCase data contracts

2013-03-14T20:09:40Z

I really like SignalR for its capability to do push notifications from the server to the client. But there are a few thing in SignalR I am not quite happy with. Fortunately SignalR is really pluggable and you can change it to suit your needs. :-) PascalCase versus camelCase One thing I am not really happy about is the fact that all data is send over the wire with a request as is. And with SignalR the server tends to be C# where the convention is to have methods and properties in PascalCase...(read more)

WF Security Pack Update

2013-03-13T01:01:19Z

Quite a few folks have asked me about updating WF Security Pack to .NET 4.5 as WIF is now integrated into .NET 4.5. Today I manage to spare sometime to upgrade the WFSP to .NET 4.5/WIF 4.5. I have also pushed the updated source code to github which you can pull down from https://github.com/zamd/wfsp/ Please [...] Blog Post by: zamd...(read more)

Excellent rest met de WebAPI #TechDaysNL

2013-03-11T11:41:00Z

De PowerPoint slides Excellent rest met de web api from Maurice Beijer En hier staat de bron code. Enjoy! Blog Post by: Maurice...(read more)